City Quotes

The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.

I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.

How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?" "Traded him for Alec," Clary said.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

And I remind you of your mother now? I have got to look into a manlier cologne.

New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.

If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it even more interesting.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will be the phallic symbol they will hit.

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.

I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.